Web of resistance: Deleuzian digital space and hacktivism.
This article argues that the Internet possesses the potential to challenge corporate and Statist domination of digital space. Mapping Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concepts of the rhizome, smooth/striated space, and the nomad onto the idea of digital connectivity, I show how hacktivism can ini...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 334 - 350 |
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Dec2016
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